End of caching-nameserver package

[Adam Tkac]

Bernardo Innocenti napsal(a):
> By the way, I always wanted to ask... we use caching-nameserver
> because the libc resolver can only do per-process caching versus
> system-wide caching, right?
>
> If so, wouldn't nscd be a lighter weight daemon for this purpose?
Of course. nscd caching all "traffic" which is related to nsswitch 
(host, passwd, services etc). Main difference between nscd and named is 
that named is heavy-weight reference DNS server and nscd is here only 
for nss caching purposes.

Adam